Many gamers panicked this morning when their Gamerscores—records of everything they've done on their Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles—zeroed out. Microsoft says not to worry. They've resolved the issue. »3/13/12 11:15am 3/13/12 11:15am

Maybe it's due to the slumping sales of Xbox Live Arcade games that game developers have been complaining about. Or maybe we can call it Gamerscore inflation. Or is Microsoft just being generous? »3/12/12 6:15pm 3/12/12 6:15pm

Bungie's latest update features the icon art for all 49 achievements in Halo: Reach, but didn't name or provide the GamerScore payout for all of them. Still, here's what we do know: »7/10/10 6:30pm 7/10/10 6:30pm

Does your Gamerscore not end in a zero or a five? And does that bug you? If so, you're a little weird, but you're also lucky. There's a guy who knows how to help you out. »3/29/10 6:00pm 3/29/10 6:00pm

It's 9 p.m. and I've lost my fifth straight game of Madden NFL Arcade to the same person, each time by 30-0. My opponent has a gamerscore of more than 165,000. But it's not because she's good at football. »12/09/09 2:00pm 12/09/09 2:00pm

Forget HD graphics. The one really new thing the 360 (and now the PS3) have brought to this generation of gaming is achievements. But how do you design them? What makes 'em tick? »4/02/09 7:30am 4/02/09 7:30am

Microsoft is investigating a problem with expiring email addresses that is causing some Xbox Live users to abandon their Gamertags and start fresh, losing any progress they've accumulated over the past few years. »2/18/09 2:00pm 2/18/09 2:00pm

Sorry to keep hitting you with these bad news stories. Maybe things will get happier next week. But today, things are bleak, with news now that Microsoft's Gamerscore blog team have been laid off. »1/22/09 11:30pm 1/22/09 11:30pm

Gamerscore Blog, an important part of Microsoft's Xbox community outreach for several years, is being retired. Microsoft will now focus that effort through Xbox.com and the Xbox dashboard. »1/17/09 11:00am 1/17/09 11:00am